Re: [Exim] temporarily rejected RCPT w/o reason

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Author: Rene Küttner
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To: Andreas Gietl
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] temporarily rejected RCPT w/o reason
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Andreas Gietl wrote:
> On Saturday 15 February 2003 19:22, Andreas Gietl wrote:
>
> i tracked the error down and found out the following:
>
> 4611 processing "accept"
> 4611 check hosts = +relay_from_hosts
> 4611 gethostbyname returned 3 (NO_RECOVERY)
> 4611 host not found
> 4611 host in "127.0.0.1 : /etc/relayhosts"? lookup deferred for
> /etc/relayhosts
> 4611 host in "+relay_from_hosts"? lookup deferred for +relay_from_hosts
> 4611 accept: condition test deferred
> 4611 SMTP>> 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
> 4611 LOG: MAIN REJECT
>
> looks like exim failed to handle the data-input from the /etc/relayhosts file
> defined in exim.conf:
>
> hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : /etc/relayhosts


thats the point. you cannot add a filepath to a hostlist. you
have to configure a lookup. see exim specification for details

greetings

>
> maybe some misformat in this file caused the error? the file was readable, so
> that is not the problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i upgraded one of our major mailservers to exim-4.12 + exiscan-4.12-22
> > yesterday and everything works smoothly except for one strange thing.
> >
> > Sometimes relaying users are rejected with the following message:
> >
> > temporarily rejected RCPT
> >
> > In the main an reject-log the following appears:
> >
> > 2003-02-15 14:55:57 H=(hostname) [111.111.111.111] F=<sender-foo@???>
> > temporarily rejected RCPT <recipient@???>
> >
> > So no reason is given, why these mails are rejected.
> >
> > Both the recipient and the sender are valid Adresses working just fine. And
> > a few minutes later the same Mail simply works and is accepted.
> >
> > I already turned off hostlookups and re-checked the configuration, but did
> > not find any suspicious things. The mails are not rejected by an ACL as far
> > as i can see. Since this behavior appears for a few minutes and disappears
> > later i can not go into debug mode an watch it, because i never saw it
> > live.
> >
> > One more interesting thing: this behavior occurs concentrated on a few
> > minutes and disappears after this for hours. So i have about 30 of these
> > entries in the log between 10 minutes and then it suddenly stops. But in
> > this 10 minutes time-slot other mails are successfully relayed.
> >
> > Before i go into an in-depth analysis i would like to hear your comments,
> > since this is gonna take me hours.
> >
> > Any ideas? Any suggestions? Do you need any further information?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Andreas
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